Oggi su ilManifesto scrivo dei massacri in #Iran e della necessità di leggere le mobilitazioni non attraverso il ridotto geopolitico che compone lo screenplay dell’internazionale reazionaria t.co/KUlEB9nhh9

“This is a military occupation, and it feels like a military occupation,” said Elliott Payne, president of the Minneapolis City Council. Federal agents scream obscenities at residents and repeatedly holster and unholster their weapons. “It’s like living in a war zone.”

With the Reactionary International backing the Shah, threatening imperial blows, the worse would be a left that hesitates to fully support Iranian youth for fear of “legitimizing intervention.” A betrayal of 'Woman, Life, Freedom', a political abdication, the child of geopolitical reductionism.

IR Realists saying farewell to the Rational Actor Assumption

I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?

the world as we know it is ending. In the near future Adam Tooze sees multipolar disorder lavishly powered with cheap energy: a polycrisis with drones and heavy crude. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Musk calls the UK government "fascist" because it has said the Twitter platform shouldn't break the laws that apply to all platforms. It is important for the government to get across how extreme the unlawful content that X keeps protecting & even coproducing is www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

A “quick and dirty job”, seizing the control tower and strategic sites, might have been possible in 2025, he said, but Denmark has ramped up its presence. “I hope the Europeans can convince the US that we will indeed shoot back,” he said. “US soldiers would come back to the US in body bags.” 🇬🇱🇩🇰🇪🇺✊

two days ago Trump told the oil giants operating in Venezuela that will be completely safe: ‘I think the people in Venezuela will give you excellent security.’ Then urged US citizens to flee amid reports of paramilitaries 'searching vehicles for Americans' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Victims don’t have the luxury of separating themselves from the crime. When it comes to online threats, 'one person is feeling the reality of the Internet very viscerally: the person who is being threatened,' says [social media sociologist Nathan] Jurgenson."- Amanda Hess psmag.com/social-justi...

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

At this point I wonder if Italy’s Meloni government, that is increasingly in line with Trump along with Hungary & co, is ready to dig the grave of the European Union and an irreversible crack in Nato by considering “legitimate” even a US grab of Greenland.

oggi su il Manifesto provo a leggere l'aggressione al Venezuela-colonia e la riedizione della dottrina Monroe, con imposizione di un ordine ideologicamente conforme alla visione e agli interessi di Donald Trump in tutta l’America Latina. ilmanifesto.it/limperatore-...

Years ago I was interviewing a policeman Caracas historical center. He stopped and told me he could no further walk with me, because policemen on the other side of the square would throw acid on his face. Caracas is mainly informal barrios. I feel the US has no idea of what it’s stepping into

That always works out pretty well

anybody considering there's a deal made behind the scenes? Including responding to the question on Nobel prize Machado like this "I think it will be very tough for her to be the leader, she does not have the support or respect of the country. She is a nice woman but she does not have the respect.

Strikes in Nigeria, threats on Iran, strikes in Venezuela. Lowest common denominator: oil

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"It is a sad fact that no court since the Nuremberg Trials has held an individual accountable for the crime of aggression." fellowtravelersblog.com/2018/03/29/m...

listening to the Italian tv news. Amidst a wave of tax increases (highway tolls, gasoline, insurance etc), they announce "some good news": the government has postponed for the SEVENTH time the introduction of taxation on sugar in beverages, and on single-use plastic. We cannot make it

Finland seizes 132-metre-long cargo ship accused of damaging underwater cables. Media report it bears a St Vincent and Grenadines flag, and it was en route from St Petersburg, Russia, to Haifa, Israel. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

the type of superpower leadership where women are those tasked with bringing food

Here’s the answer from Kremlin Ushakov says Ukraine must leave Donbas immediately Putin’s aide also rejected the idea of a two-month ceasefire — a pause proposed to hold a referendum in Ukraine on a peace plan.

oggi su il Manifesto una mia lettura sulle difficoltà del dibattito a sinistra in Italia su espansionismo, imperialismo e politiche di potenza ilmanifesto.it/il-regime-ru...

Russia's war spending will hit $198.8 billion in 2025, with $30 billion over budget and 7.3% of GDP The Kremlin is spending $2.7 billion weekly on the war despite falling oil revenues and rising deficits euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/21/r...

oggi scrivo su il Manifesto di come il disegno della molto celebrata ‘premier forte’ punti sulla stessa Europa debole che vuole Trump ilmanifesto.it/la-debolezza...

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is asking U.S. oil companies if they’re interested in returning to Venezuela once Maduro is toppled, per sources familiar with the discussions. So far, the answer is a hard “no.”

A new assessment of Russia's war economy state came out from @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social Despite initial signs of resilience and a surprising recovery, the Russian economy is now back on a trajectory of long-term stagnation. www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

A longer version of the US NSS leaked to @DefenseOne lists Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland as countries the US should “work more with, with the goal of pulling them away from the EU.” Meanwhile Meloni's Italy made explicit its opposition to the EU Russian frozen assets plan

Negotiations between US & Ukraine have begun. It will be embarrassing for him if Witkoff starts to read his statement in the original Russian.

this map can be discussed, but it exposes that while European liberal-conservatives bet on their managing national rearmament, extracting an economic boost, Europe's social pact cracks, fueling far-right nationalists, ready for reaping the fruits. US and Russia want no EU defense + the EU to crack

🇺🇸 The US will strike ISIS in response to the killing of American troops and an interpreter in Syria, Trump said. "This was an attack by ISIS on us and on Syria," the US president added.

"Then in just the last week, the Ukrainians executed a military operation that pushed the Russians back about twice the distance as it had taken the Russians to advance in more than four months. It's interesting that this story has not yet appeared in the New York Times.'

U.S. President Donald Trump’s overt embrace of Europe’s nationalists is exposing a rift among its biggest far-right parties. While Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has welcomed Trump’s moral support, France’s National Rally has kept its distance. politi.co/4oSyD9o

A drone strike has hit a United Nations peacekeeping logistics base in war-torn Sudan, killing six peacekeepers, injuring eight. The Sudanese military blamed the attack on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Germany announces it will send troops and build fortifications to reinforce the Polish eastern border (Le Monde)

how with the new NSS advisers to Trump produced a “written articulation of the gut instinct that the president lives by” that may work as a compass to Vance after Trump leaves www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: Ukraine would be earmarked to join the EU by 2027 under a fast-tracked proposal being discussed in US-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war, in a move that would rewrite the bloc’s accession procedures. w/ @henryjfoy.ft.com @maxseddon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e504...

Any journalist asking Italy’s PM Meloni a comment on her close friend’s statement on the EU rapist dictatorship and the crossing of the Rubicon? Anyone asking Orbán why doesnt he push Hungary out of the EU dictatorship?

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In the first 10 months of 2025, €32.5bln in military aid was given to Ukraine, mainly by Europe. In 2 months, Ukraine's allies would need to give more than €5bln to match the lowest year (2022) and more than €9bln to match the average of €41.6bln paid annually between 2022 and 2024 (Kiel Institute).

even worse, Google accepted that

“The most troubling aspect of Trump’s attacks on Somali-Americans is how acceptable it’s become for the president of the United States and members of Congress to speak this way, and how much we’ve desensitized ourselves to it.” Spot on by @melissaryan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...

più ideologia che realismo: oggi su Il Manifesto un mio commento sulla nuova Strategia di Sicurezza Nazionale USA, l’aspirazione a plasmare un ordine internazionale nazional-sovranista, e le implicazioni per la scena politica europea ilmanifesto.it/il-comintern...

sono felice di essere a Cagliari per contribuire a #NelMareDiMezzo, Conferenza euro-mediterranea per la Pace, organizzata da Arci con il supporto di @Reg_Sardegna

the US nazis, the Spanish arrests of Base members, the links to the Kremlin www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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